Refrigerator-counter bracket.



O. M. WOLFF.

REFRlGERATOR COUNTER BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. I5. 1915.

Patented July 25, 1916.

OSCAR M. WOLFE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

REFRIGERATOR-COUNTER BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 191$.

Application filed November 15, 1915. Serial No. 61,590.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Oscar: M. TVVOLFF, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerator- Counter Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved form of refrigerating counter bracket having improved means for supporting the refrigerator pipes and drip pan.

A specific embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a refrigerator counter equipped with the improved bracket. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective of the bracket. -Fig. 3 is a sec tion of the bracket taken on the line A-A of Fig. 1.

In the construction shown in the drawings, a counter 1 is equipped at its front edge with suitable brackets 2 of usual c011- struction which support glass panels 3for closing in and covering the counter. The rear edge of the counter is provided with the improved form of bracket which is the subject of this application, and which comprises an inwardly extending base #1, a vertical standard 5 and a top part 6. This bracket is positioned so as to support an insulated wall structure 7 of wood or other suitable material, which is secured thereto by means of screws (not shown) that are adapted to have threaded engagement with tapped holes 8 in the bracket. The top of the display counter is completed and the interior rendered accessible by means of a door 9 which may be hinged tothe inner edge 10 of the top of bracket 2.

Means for supporting refrigerating pipes 11 on the improved bracket are provided and comprise a head or clamping member 12 carried on a bolt 13 mounted in a counter-sunk hole in the vertical standard 5, said bolt being provided with anut 14 for shifting said clamping member to bear against and hold the refrigerating pipes between it and a web 15 on the inner face of the bracket. The opposed faces of the web and clamping member are provided with concave seats for the pipes.

The base 4; of the bracket is formed with an upstanding lug 16 at its inner end so as to provide a seat for a removable drip pan 17, and the bracket as a whole is secured to the counter by means of screws which pass through countersunk holes 18 in said base.

It is apparent that a bracket of this form shown having an integralinwardly extending base attached directly to the counter below the drip pan is durable and will much more easily withstand the severe strains to which this type of structure is subjected, than is the usual case where the refrigerator pipes are supported directly by the rear wall of the counter.

I prefer to employ refrigerating pipes of comparatively large diameter since they are more compact and present a larger total radiating surface than do the clusters of small pipes usually employed in refrigerating counters.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention has been herein shown and described, it will be understood that niuner ous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of this invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim 1. A refrigerating counter bracket, comprising an inwardly extending supporting base, a standard and a top integral with each other, and means on said bracket for supporting refrigerating pipes, said base being shaped to form a seat for supporting a drip pan directly below such pipes.

2. A refrigerating counter bracket comprising an inwardly extending supporting base, a standard and a top integral with each other, inwardly facing seats located one above another on said standard for receiving refrigerator pipes, and a vertically disposed clamping member on said standard and shiftable relatively thereto for securing refrigerator pipes between said standard and clamping member, said base being other, for refrigerator pipes, a clamp head shaped to form a seat for supporting a drip having corresponding seats therein, and a 10 pan directly below such pipes. bolt connecting said head and bracket be- 3. A refrigerating counter bracket comtween said seats. 5 prising an inwardly extending base, a Signed at Chicago this 13th day of Nov.

standard and a top integral with each other, 1915.

' 'means on said standard providing two inwardly facing concave seats, one above the I OSCAR M. WOLFF.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, I). 0. 

